Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
How does a failure on the rugeley branch affect tring stoppers? Are we talking the rugeley trent line or rugeley wallsall line
I mean the latter.
The whole thing is interworked, so while I don't know the diagrams in detail it was more an example. A Rugeley-Euston 350 getting stuck on that branch could well mean it not getting to Euston to work to Tring (or wherever) later on. Then that might mean its traincrew are displaced and so a Trent Valley gets canned, and so on until the whole thing collapses in (metaphorical) flames, only to be sorted out by the gap in service overnight (other than the 0134 ex EUS/0330 ex MKC which is the only set that stays out all night).
Talking of the 0330, a very large number of users of that train are LUL employees heading down to start an early shift, so if it's cancelled they'll all be an hour and a bit late for work (the 0430ish is the next train, and a bustitution isn't really viable of an all-stations run as it takes about 3 hours). This being the case, it's quite possible that, say, a broken window at Rugeley Town in the late afternoon today could result in a cancellation on the Victoria Line tomorrow morning.